Rumor Mill: Lance Armstrong May Race in Gloucester

October 2, 2008

The North Shore/Cape Ann/Greater Newburyport region has been a hot spot for celebrity sightings this year as several scenes for upcoming movies have been filmed throughout the region.

We may be able to add famous athletes to the list of actors and actresses in a few weeks if the latest rumor out of Gloucester pans out.

According to an article by Matt Langone in the Gloucester Daily News, rumors are swirling about in Gloucester and the professional bicycling community that Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, may race in the Grand Prix of Gloucester on October 11th and 12th.
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Written by Mark Bransfield · Filed Under Cape Ann (Rockport and Gloucester), Events, Explore Our Region, News | Leave a Comment

Lecture: The Annual 1500-Mile Long Triangular Migration Of Wild Atlantic Stripers

July 14, 2008

When: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Sawyer Free Library, Friend’s Room, 2 Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA

On Wednesday, July 16 at 7:00 p.m., the Schoooner Adventure Series is holding a free lecture by inveterate fly-fisherman Richard Murphy for an on wild-spawning Striped Bass that roam coastal beaches, bays, and estuaries from the Carolinas to Maine.

The lecture is being held at Sawyer Free Library, Friend’s Room
2 Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA. Richard Murphy is a Civil Engineer for the State of Massachusetts and the author of Fly-Fishing for Striped Bass.

For more information, visit the Schooner Adventure website.

Written by Mark Bransfield · Filed Under Cape Ann (Rockport and Gloucester), Coastal Naturalist, Events, Fishing, Marine Science | Leave a Comment

Gloucester To Be Featured On Chronicle (WCVB-TV) On Monday at 7:30 pm

April 19, 2008

WCVB-TV, Channel 5, is re-broadcasting on monday evening, April 21, at 7:30 pm the 30-minute program it ran on the City of Gloucester in an espisode of its award winning regional program, Chronicle, last summer. The Chronicle team spent three weeks in Gloucester collecting information and interviewing residents and officials in the city for the program.

According to the Gloucester Daily Times, the program explored Gloucester’s identity crisis as it imagined a life after commercial fishing’s command of the harbor was broken by overly restrictive fishery regulators.

Written by Ben Bransfield · Filed Under Business, Cape Ann (Rockport and Gloucester), News | Leave a Comment

Walt Disney Pictures May Film In Rockport This April

March 25, 2008

An article in the Gloucester Daily Times by Jonathan L’Ecuyer reports that the Town of Rockport and Walt Disney Pictures are negotiating the details for an agreement to allow Walt Disney Pictures to film on location on Bearskin Neck and Main Street in Rockport for seven days in April.

The filming is for the movie, “The Proposal,” a romantic comedy from director Anne Fletcher and starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen and Craig T. Nelson. Currently the effort is in pre-production and tentatively set to open in theaters in September 2009.

For more information, see Mr. L’Ecuyer’s article in the Gloucester Daily Times.

Written by Mark Bransfield · Filed Under Cape Ann (Rockport and Gloucester), News | Leave a Comment